# Semantic Pivoting Model for Effective Event Detection

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00709 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.00709/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 8 of its 25 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 1 Nov 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Categorical Reparameterization with Gumbel-Softmax](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.01144/) (2016)
- [Entity, Relation, and Event Extraction with Contextualized Span Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.03546/) (2019)
- [Event Extraction by Answering (Almost) Natural Questions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.13625/) (2020)
- [Jointly Multiple Events Extraction via Attention-based Graph Information Aggregation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.09078/) (2018)
- [Joint Embedding of Words and Labels for Text Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1805.04174/) (2018)
- [Multi-Task Label Embedding for Text Classification](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1710.07210/) (2017)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Event Detection, which aims to identify and classify mentions of event instances from unstructured articles, is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Existing techniques for event detection only use homogeneous one-hot vectors to represent the event type classes, ignoring the fact that the semantic meaning of the types is important to the task. Such an approach is inefficient and prone to overfitting. In this paper, we propose a Semantic Pivoting Model for Effective Event Detection (SPEED), which explicitly incorporates prior information during training and captures semantically meaningful correlations between input and events. Experimental results show that our proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance and outperforms the baselines in multiple settings without using any external resources.